Phones Automatically Sending NUDES!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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932 words · ~4 min read
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oh man this day sucks how about some tech news hey oh yeah
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9th generation core processors in a micro code update document right after
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the familiar 8th gen gang are the names of a bunch of 9000 series chips from the
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nine in front of them so you don't see that every day for
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those of you that are paranoid that your apps are listening in on you well
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they might still be doing that but it's slightly less likely than we all thought
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researchers at northeastern university in boston studied more than 17 000 apps
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on ten different popular Android phones for over a year and they found no
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evidence of an app activating a microphone or sending audio when it
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wasn't supposed to what they did find evidence of however was rogue screen
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recording some apps sent screenshots and video files to third parties without
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user permission google has responded saying they're working with developers
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to ensure users are adequately informed of apps abilities and permissions but
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there's a silver lining in all this we have one new thing to be paranoid about
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it's a hobby oh perfect here's another one speaking of sending unwanted pics
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samsung phones have apparently been sending random photos from users camera
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rolls to their contacts the offending app is samsung's default texting app
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messages which doesn't even show users that the files have been sent victims
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have simply been informed by the contacts who received the photos samsung
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is apparently looking into it but some are speculating this might have something to do with recent updates from
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network carriers enabling rcs messaging which is supposed to make sms texts
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behave more like online messaging apps like whatsapp it would be nice to get to
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rainway a game streaming service has investigated fortnite hacking tools and
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at least one of them has malware that's currently infecting tens of thousands of
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google has been in damage control mode as reports have emerged that third party
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plugins for gmail can read your emails but they're all certified and totally
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fine or at least that's what google says
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i mean it's kind of what you sign up for by using google though isn't it and more
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evidence of NVIDIA's gtx 11 series has popped up in the specs for lenovo's
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